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On Jan 10, 2014 7:19 AM, "Christophe Strobbe" <stro...@hdm-stuttgart.de>
wrote:
>
> Hi Rob, All,
>
> Level AA also encompasses all of level A, and level AAA encompasses all of
> level AA. So if a tool has radio buttons for the three levels, choosing AA
> should result in a check of all level A and all level AA criteria. Of
> course, such checks only cover aspects that can be checked automatically
> (which is definitely less than half of WCAG).
>
> Please note that level AAA is a very high level. For example, it requires
> that content should be made readable for people whose reading ability is
> at "lower secondary education level"
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#meaning-supplements>.
> Because of requirements like this one, AAA is not applicable or suitable
> to all web sites (e.g. academic journals).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe
>
>
> Am Fr, 10.01.2014, 15:48 schrieb Rob Weir:
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:35 PM, V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu>
> > wrote:
> >> Rob, *,
> >>
> >>>... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of
> >>>authorities for accessibility standards.
> >>
> >> It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web
> >> content, and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Communications
> >> Technologies (ICT). National and International Standards bodies are
> >> basing conformance against this standard.
> >>
> >> WCAG 2.0 A, AA, AAA ( also published as ISO/IEC 40500:2012 ) are
> >> functional levels of conformance with accessibility standards.
> >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
> >>
> >> The reworked AOO Website should probably meet majority of WCAG v2.0 AA
> >> level requirements. And Apache OpenOffice as a document preparation and
> >> review program should also strive to meet WCAG level A & AA conformance
> >> criteria for ICT (http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/ ).
> >>
> >> Fortunately much of that is accomplished for the website with valid
HTML
> >> 5.0 and WAI-ARIA markup. While the introduction of IAccessible2 to
> >> supplement MSAA, and improvements in ATK and NSAccessibility move the
> >> office suite proper into a better compliance with some notable
> >> shortcommings.
> >>
> >> In the United States, the existing Accessibility Board US Section 508
> >> requirements were loosely equivalent to WCAG v1, and are being
rewritten
> >> to match functional levels of WCAG 2.0 A & AA. The draft proposal for
> >> U.S. conformance can be found here:
> >>
> >> http://www.access-board.gov/attachments/article/490/draft-rule.pdf
> >>
> >> Also, relevant parts of the European Union EN 301 549 (
> >>
http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/01.00.00_20/en_301549v010000c.pdf
> >> ) as work of the European Commision (EC) Mandate M 376 (
> >> http://www.mandate376.eu/ ) are also based on WCAG v2.0 level A and AA.
> >>
> >> So running conformance validators for WCAG 2.0 A, AA, & AAA is probably
> >> the correct choice in reworking the web site.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation,
> >
> > One question: would we need to run against each of the profiles, or
> > AAA include AA and A automatically? In other words, is AA a superset
> > of A, and AAA a superset of AA? Or are they more like incremental
> > rule sets, that need to be applied in addition to the base rule sets?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Rob
It's been quite a while since I did any work like this -- for Section 508
validation and appropriate changes -- but I liked the stand alone tools
best due to their bulk efficiency. I don't know what's available now,
however.
And, good to get some information about international standards.
Hopefully, the tools will address this requirement also.
> >
> >
> >> Stuart
> >>
> >>
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